AUSTRALIAThe Land Down Under
Bellringer Question:Bellringer Question:What can you learn What can you learn about Australia by about Australia by looking at this looking at this picture?picture?
Australian Flag
Perth, Australia
Canberra—Capital City
Sydney Harbor Bridge
Quick Check—Whiteboards
What is the capital of Australia? What is the largest city in
Australia? What is the famous building
located in Sydney? What is the main language of
Australia?
Sheep Farming
Mount Kosciuszko—7,310 feet
Great Barrier Reef
Video
Whiteboard: Whiteboard: Write down one Write down one thing you thing you learned about learned about the Great Barrier the Great Barrier Reef?Reef?
bilby
Blue tongued skink
dingoCassowary
Koala
kookaburra
echidna
nabarlek
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wombat
Frilled lizard
Platypus
kangaroo
Quick Write
Define marsupial Define native species What is your favorite animal in Australia?
The most feared animal in Australia?
Within 10 years of the introduction of 24 rabbits from England in 1859, rabbits had become so common that two million could be shot or trapped annually without having any noticeable effect on the population.
It was the fastest spread ever recorded of any mammal anywhere in the world.
They are suspected of being the most significant known factor in species loss in Australia.
kill young trees in orchards, forests and on properties by ringbarking them.
They eat native plants, leaving the topsoil exposed and vulnerable . The removal of this topsoil is devastating to the land, as it takes many hundreds of years to regenerate.
Invasive animal
Bushfire of 2009
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THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK
What can you learn about the Outback by just looking at this picture?
Wave Rock, Western Territory
Similar structure found in Utah
AboriginesVideo
Indigenous People
Aboriginal Art
Boomerangs & Didgeridoos
Video
Quick Write—Whiteboards
What does indigenous mean? What did the English call the famous
sandstone rock in the Outback? The natives? Name an invention of the Aborigines.
NEW ZEALANDLand of Adventure
Kiwis
Ring of Fire
Mt. Cook—12316ft
Auckland—the city of sails
Quick Check—Whiteboards
What is the tallest mountain in New Zealand?
What are the name of the two main islands?
What is the capital of New Zealand? What are New Zealanders called? What is the largest city in New Zealand?
Rotoura Hot Springs
Milford Sound—fjords 100% Pure New Zealand
Maori Tribe
Quick Check—Whiteboards
What is a long, narrow valley with steep cliffs created thousands of years ago by glaciers?
Indigenous means the people that inhabited or lived there before the ______________ people came and took it over.
What is the main language in New Zealand? What is the name of the indigenous people?
Haka
All Blacks Rugby Team Dance of Life (Maori Excerpt) Another All Black Video
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